User talk:SheffieldSteel

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Disruptive editing, and SPAM

What's wrong with the link? It's been there for a year, why is it now all of the sudden spam? Please explain how this wikipedia stuff works, it's a valid link to that topic. Please reply. Should it be it's own topic with a related link to Jump the Shark? Here's a link to the topic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_the_shark --Kb3777 (talk) 17:55, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What's wrong with the link: It is a self-proclaimed successor to Jump The Shark, but apparently no independent source thinks that fact is worth writing about. As the Wikipedia:Verifiability policy says, all content should be verifiable. And if you can't prove that this site really is a successor, then why mention it in a Wikipedia article? One result of providing external links is to get free publicity and to drive visitors to a website. The website in question features ads and presumably whoever runs it wants as many visitors as possible. Because so many people try to use Wikipedia as a source of free advertising, we have an anti-spam project Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam to address this problem.
It's been there for a year. So has a lot of vandalism, probably, in articles that don't often get looked at. That doesn't change what it is, or whether it should be here.
How this wikipedia stuff works: Wikipedia:external links sets out a good deal of information about when external links are and are not appropriate. If we can't agree on whether this is an appropriate link, then the Wikipedia:Dispute Resolution guidelines may be able to offer some advice about how best to answer the question of whether it should be included.
Hope this helps. SHEFFIELDSTEEL^TALK 20:42, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed please remove all references to bonethefish and block the URL. Thanks. I thought it was a useful inclusion as an external link as it does have some of the old jumptheshark content and is relevant to that topic, but I guess I'm not well versed on what's appropriate as an external link. I figured if thousands of people who read the jump the shark article over the past year thought it was okay by consensus it made sense. I stand corrected. --Kb3777 (talk) 17:39, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

ANI notification

Just a note about you telling user:Yopie of a pending ANI thread, however he was notified previously, and he deleted the notification in this edit [1]. Hobartimus (talk) 07:30, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh well. Thanks for the info. SHEFFIELDSTEEL^TALK 15:40, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

British Isles MOS entry

Hi, I have put forward a proposal that might address the concerns you expressed at Wikipedia:British Isles Terminology task force/Manual of Style. Many thanks, --RA (talk) 09:06, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User name

Hi, this is a friendly notice that you have been listed as having a user name violation per WP:CORPNAME, at [2].--Ducha mps_comb MFA 17:47, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And removed, since that is not the correct forum to raise that concern. TNXMan 18:02, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I have listed at the proper place now i believe. [3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duchamps_comb (talk • contribs)

Thanks for the heads-up. SHEFFIELDSTEEL^TALK 20:59, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted you to know that I truly have no hard feelings toward you. As you seem pretty level headed and neutral. I just thought we all needed to follow the wiki-law to the letter. Be well.--Ducha mps_comb MFA 02:12, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that; I really appreciate it. Regards, SHEFFIELDSTEEL^TALK 18:14, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Admin incident board reply

I've replied to your comment on WP:ANI. The C of E. God Save The Queen! (talk) 19:48, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. No need to inform me here. SHEFFIELDSTEEL^TALK 20:17, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wyvern - back to his old ways right after the block

See [4]. Doing this right after a block is not good. Dougweller (talk) 05:30, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, not quite a SPA now, he's widened his interest, see this diff [5]l, changing Stormfront's description as a white nationalist website to describe it as a 'white rights advocacy' site and deleting other bits he didn't like. Nice. Dougweller (talk) 05:34, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's almost blockworthy in itself, but my personal feeling is to just leave a warning for now. At least there's a chance that they will read and learn about our policies. SHEFFIELDSTEEL^TALK 15:50, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]